This is a bit of fun – learn how to draw an old-fashioned style retro rocket and send your brave spacemen off to find aliens and brave new worlds! You can get it on a tshirt too!
I was asked to supply a photo for the Wychwood Festival in Cheltenham, that I’m going to be at this year. I typed my name into the Computer search box to find something and these two pictures appeared next to each other (pause as cat enters studio looking for some attention!)
The first is me aged about 6 with a stray cat I found and we adopted called Eeek! and the second is my beautiful Marmadukewho died six years ago ( pause while his sister jumps onto my lap – how did she know what I was writing about?) It was one of my first blog entries and you can see how devastated I was.
The picture of Marmaduke must be around 1999.
Have I mentioned that the Ginger Ninja is now available on iPad? Marmaduke wasn’t the inspiration, but he definitely posed for me once or twice! The camera pose hasn’t changed in a very long time.
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I’m indebted to TouTube user cresshead for making a movie about my new kindle book, Craig M’nure. He shows it on and a colour android tablet and kindle as well. He seems impressed with the way it’s come out and so am I. I think I may have to do more for kindle even if it’s going to take quite a lot more organisation. Watch this space.
available now at
US Amazon Store
UK Amazon Store
It’s not taken me very long to get my Craig M’nure book sorted out for the Kindle. It took even less to get it uploaded and onto the Amazon Kindle store. about 3 hours – compare that to 2 weeks and counting at the iBooks store for ipad.
The book is available at
US Amazon http://amzn.to/J2cE5h
UK Amazon http://amzn.to/I6wmT0
How to speak in a Scottish Accent – just some thoughts on the Scottish accent as I’m editing my book, Craig M’nure, Kindle. I’m reading it out aloud in Craig’s weird Scottish accent. He isn’t actually Scottish, he lives in the middle of the Atlantic on his own island, andis mostly influenced by sattelite TV and YouTube (he has the fastest internet connection in the world. His accent is a bit like my worst immpression of a scottish accent, which is a blend of Glasgow, Morningside and Orkney. That’s probably because Craig is my alter ego!
In the heart of the city of London is the old Nat West Tower. It used to be the tallest building in Town. But all around it new buildings go up and across the river, the new Shard building laughs at it’s puniness – even with the bit extra built on top! But what we really want to see is the Gherkin, designed by Norman Foster, also known as 30 St Mary Axe, it is built on the site of the old Baltic Exchange, which was blown up by the IRA in the 1980s.
I found out today that a school nearby are drawing big buildings of London town. Here’s a lesson That fits perfectly, showing you how to draw the Gherkin – the famous London landmark building designed by Sir Norman Foster. See also my video about the tallest buildings of Olde London Town.
Now on iPad now from the iTunes Store.
Watch Shoo Rayner tell one of his favourite stories about dozy, lazy Bombassa and bright sparky Millie. Auntie Daz is coming to tea and she thinks Bombassa has been in bed all day!
